IGERT: Intelligent Geosystems

这一综合研究生教育与研究(IGERT)奖支持科罗拉多矿业学院的博士培训计划，以追求智能地球系统的综合研究和教育。研究生将接受培训，以增加对自然或工程土结构的实时、自适应、传感能力，例如土坝、地下水系统或土建工地(隧道、城市挖掘、高速公路)；所采用的传感器网络将允许地球系统感知其环境、诊断其状况并做出决策，以改善地球系统的管理、操作或目标。目标是推动“智能”地球系统的发展，同时教育和培训能够在这一新兴的跨学科领域有效运作的新一代领导人。拟议的IGERT计划将对受训者采取跨学科和整体的方法。IGERT奖的主要组成部分包括：(1)多学科协作研究团队框架，以促进智能地球系统概念的团队开发和跨学科创新；(2)领导力和团队合作发展计划，为工业界、学术界和政府培养下一代地球系统领导者；(3)辅修社会/环境伦理与政策博士学位，以扩大学员对智能地球系统的社会、环境和政治方面的技术挑战的理解；(4)使用智能地球系统模块的自学进度的跨学科技术课程；以及(5)在政府实验室或行业的智能地球系统实习。IGERT项目的这五个组成部分将培养出多样化、高技能的领导者，他们具有多学科环境所需的强烈的社会和环境意识。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research (IGERT) award supports a Ph.D. training program at the Colorado School of Mines to pursue integrative research and education in Intelligent Geosystems. Graduate students will be trained to add real time, adaptive, sensing capabilities to the monitoring of natural or engineered earth structures, e.g., an earth dam, a ground water system, or a geoconstruction site (tunneling, urban excavation, highway); the sensor networks employed will allow a geosystem to sense its environment, diagnose its condition, and make decisions to improve the management, operation, or objective of the geosystem. The goals are to advance the development of the "intelligent" geosystems while educating and training a new generation of leaders who are able to operate effectively in this emerging interdisciplinary area. The proposed IGERT program will institute an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to trainees. Key components of this IGERT award include: (1) a multi-disciplinary collaborative research team framework to foster team development and interdisciplinary innovation in intelligent geosystem concepts; (2) a leadership and teamwork development program to train the next generation of geosystem leaders for industry, academia and government; (3) a PhD minor in social/environmental ethics & policy to broaden trainee understanding beyond the technical challenges to the social, environmental and political aspects of intelligent geosystems; (4) a self-paced cross-disciplinary technical course using modules in intelligent geosystems; and (5) an internship with a government laboratory or industry in intelligent geosystems. These five components of this IGERT program will produce diverse, highly skilled leaders with the strong social and environmental awareness required in multidisciplinary environments. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.